India, Nov. 18 -- A majority of taxis, autos and aggregator cabs are likely to stay off roads for the third consecutive day on Tuesday as the Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) has declared that the gas pipeline damaged on Sunday would be restored only around noon on Tuesday.

On Monday, more than 90% of the 280,000 autos and the 25,000 kaali-peeli taxis in the city stayed off roads even as commuters complained of surges in aggregator cab prices. Many autos and taxis were seen parked beside arterial roads and bylanes and serpentine queues were seen across the city, leading up to compressed natural gas (CNG) stations. Even 2,000 out of the nearly 8,000 school buses in the city stayed off road on Monday due to the fuel shortage.

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